Addressing a press conference, Vitry said that Barclays Saudi Arabia (BSA) was honored to have received its commencement letter from the Capital Market Authority (CMA), which allows them to conduct regulated activities now. He said: “The Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia, was an important market in which Barclays has a strong footprint and client base.” The Kingdom now becomes the fourth Barclays operation in the region after Egypt, Qatar and the UAE.
Riyadh: At least three people were reported injured when gunmen opened fire outside a mosque in Riyadh on Wednesday night. However, Senior Police officials told Arab News that only one person was hit.
Flights will operate as planned on Monday as Sama makes urgent arrangements to accommodate stranded passengers on other airlines. Sama CEO Bruce Ashby said the decision was not an easy one for the airlines and was taken only after failing to find an alternative. Sama has informed the General Authority of Civil Aviation of its plan, said GACA spokesman Khalid Al-Khaibari.
The statement released by the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) on Saturday said that a “heavy hit on the surface of the runway caused the crash that led to a fire and billowing smoke all around” immediately after landing.
The hefty wedding costs associated with marrying Saudi women prompted over 2,100 Saudi men to go hitched to non-Saudi women last year , according to a study conducted by the Ministry of Justice.
There were no casualties, although its two pilots sustained minor injuries, according to the German airline and the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA). The aircraft split into two pieces when it landed at 11.38 in the morning. “The cause of the incident is being investigated, and one of the two KKIA runways temporarily closed has since been reopened for regular flights,” said GACA spokesman Khaled Al-Khaibari.
A Jeddah-bound Saudi Arabian Airlines flight with 182 passengers on board aborted takeoff at India’s Chennai airport on Monday after the pilot detected smoke coming from one of its engines.
Three Saudi men who allegedly opened fire on a senior Riyadh-based journalist and his friend are still at large. Riyadh police have detained several suspects for identification since the attack on Wednesday night on Subhi Rakha, a correspondent for the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai. “Many suspects were released after the two police lineups in which we were called to identify the culprits,” Rakha said on Saturday. He said three men “fired indiscriminately from their pistols after my friend and I intervened to settle a scuffle between the Saudi men and an Egyptian national.”
After a hiatus of more than 20 years, Saudi Arabia will restore aviation links with Iraq with the launch of the first flight from Jeddah to Baghdad by the Kingdom’s privately owned Alwafeer Air on Thursday.
The body of a man was found in the landing gear of a Nas Air plane that flew from Beirut and landed at Riyadh’s King Khaled International Airport (KKIA) early Saturday with 130 people on board.